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Hollywood sign-style Trump letters appear on side of California freeway again
The sign previously erected off the 405 Freeway earlier this month when state workers removed the “TRUMP” sign that appeared in Sepulveda Pass hours after it was first reported. DEMOCRAT authorities said the Hollywood-style sign celebrating the president "presented a visual distraction" as thousands of vehicles were slowing down to take photos, Los Angeles station KTLA reported. DEMOCRATS also claimed the sign was a "fire concern", even though the sign was erected on private property.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/521979-hollywood-sign-style-trump-letters-appear-on-side-of-calif
The sign previously erected off the 405 Freeway earlier this month when state workers removed the “TRUMP” sign that appeared in Sepulveda Pass hours after it was first reported. DEMOCRAT authorities said the Hollywood-style sign celebrating the president "presented a visual distraction" as thousands of vehicles were slowing down to take photos, Los Angeles station KTLA reported. DEMOCRATS also claimed the sign was a "fire concern", even though the sign was erected on private property.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/521979-hollywood-sign-style-trump-letters-appear-on-side-of-calif
France confronts its failure to stop Islam
AT LAST, THEY ARE WAKING UP
Am Islamist outrage followed by anger, sorrow, candles, marches and a presidential pledge to crush the evil in France’s midst.
The sequence is as familiar as it is painful.
The beheading by a young jihadi of Samuel Paty, a teacher at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a leafy town on the outskirts of Paris, triggered the latest cycle.
The atrocity committed by an 18-year-old Muslim who grew up in France has added to the 280 murders since 2012 by Islamists in the country, five years after the massacres at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and the Bataclan concert hall.
The latest killing marks a turning point because, with all its horror and symbolism it has stirred extraordinary outrage.
It has galvanized a counteroffensive that was opened only this month by President Macron against what he calls “Islamist separatism”.
On October 2, the president chose Les Mureaux, ten miles along the Seine from Conflans, to lay out strategy for dismantling the “counter-society” of Islam that has spread for two decades out from the ghetto-like towns that ring French cities.
France is finally acting to halt the “indoctrination, the negation of our principles — equality between men and women and human dignity”, Macron said.
The key to fighting a violent, obscurantist creed was the school system, the crucible of the “Republican values” with which France identifies. “The problem is an ideology that maintains that its own laws are superior to those of the republic,” he said. “The republic will resist those who want to bring it down.”
The president’s campaign, to be followed with a new law in December, has been met with broad public approval, in large part because he dropped the euphemisms and taboos that have cloaked government treatment of the biggest ill afflicting French society.
The president admitted for the first time that France was itself responsible for the hatred of disaffected young from the rundown estates, hundreds of whom traveled to fight with Islamic State in Syria.
“We built a concentration of misery and difficulty and we know it very well,” he said.
Macron’s words were a rare admission that France’s cherished model of an egalitarian republic, which is notionally color blind to race and religion, has failed much of its people. Long denied and masked by laws that make it illegal to collect ethnic data, discrimination continues to handicap non-Europeans at work and in public life, the Islamist menace has finally met its match.
The focus is on police action and doubling down on “la laicité”, the strict exclusion of religious acts or clothing such as head coverings in schools, the police or anywhere else in official public life.
Islamic home schooling for children is to be banned to prevent Muslim indoctrination.
Macron has ordered the authorities to stop bus drivers refusing women passengers whose dress they deem to be immodest. Councils must stop allowing gender-segregated sessions at swimming pools and providing Halal meals in school canteens.
Teachers are to be encouraged to stand up to those who reject the right to publish religious caricature.
The police and intelligence services are closing mosques, prayer groups, sports clubs and other associations promoting Islamism.
One group to be closed down is the Collective against Islamophobia in France, which organizes protests and campaigns in support of Muslim activists.
Facebook, YouTube and other social media companies are in the government’s sights for the Islamist ideas that are posted on their platforms.
A new law is expected to force social media companies to delete Islamist posts within 24 hours or face heavy fines and even closure.
Foreign mullahs who advocate radical ideas are to be expelled.
Even leaders in the Socialist opposition have put aside qualms and deplored pro-Muslim radicals on their own side, who they say have started to espouse a creed of “Islamo-leftism”.
Gérard Larcher, the conservative leader of the Senate, urged Macron to do more. “The republic is facing a danger of a kind that it has rarely confronted,” he said.
The president, who is leading a memorial ceremony for Paty at the Sorbonne University on Wednesday, has told ministers to "sow fear in the camp of Islamists" after years of French suffering at the hands of extremists.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/france-confronts-its-failure-to-stop-extremism-3ff95lxwf
AT LAST, THEY ARE WAKING UP
Am Islamist outrage followed by anger, sorrow, candles, marches and a presidential pledge to crush the evil in France’s midst.
The sequence is as familiar as it is painful.
The beheading by a young jihadi of Samuel Paty, a teacher at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a leafy town on the outskirts of Paris, triggered the latest cycle.
The atrocity committed by an 18-year-old Muslim who grew up in France has added to the 280 murders since 2012 by Islamists in the country, five years after the massacres at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and the Bataclan concert hall.
The latest killing marks a turning point because, with all its horror and symbolism it has stirred extraordinary outrage.
It has galvanized a counteroffensive that was opened only this month by President Macron against what he calls “Islamist separatism”.
On October 2, the president chose Les Mureaux, ten miles along the Seine from Conflans, to lay out strategy for dismantling the “counter-society” of Islam that has spread for two decades out from the ghetto-like towns that ring French cities.
France is finally acting to halt the “indoctrination, the negation of our principles — equality between men and women and human dignity”, Macron said.
The key to fighting a violent, obscurantist creed was the school system, the crucible of the “Republican values” with which France identifies. “The problem is an ideology that maintains that its own laws are superior to those of the republic,” he said. “The republic will resist those who want to bring it down.”
The president’s campaign, to be followed with a new law in December, has been met with broad public approval, in large part because he dropped the euphemisms and taboos that have cloaked government treatment of the biggest ill afflicting French society.
The president admitted for the first time that France was itself responsible for the hatred of disaffected young from the rundown estates, hundreds of whom traveled to fight with Islamic State in Syria.
“We built a concentration of misery and difficulty and we know it very well,” he said.
Macron’s words were a rare admission that France’s cherished model of an egalitarian republic, which is notionally color blind to race and religion, has failed much of its people. Long denied and masked by laws that make it illegal to collect ethnic data, discrimination continues to handicap non-Europeans at work and in public life, the Islamist menace has finally met its match.
The focus is on police action and doubling down on “la laicité”, the strict exclusion of religious acts or clothing such as head coverings in schools, the police or anywhere else in official public life.
Islamic home schooling for children is to be banned to prevent Muslim indoctrination.
Macron has ordered the authorities to stop bus drivers refusing women passengers whose dress they deem to be immodest. Councils must stop allowing gender-segregated sessions at swimming pools and providing Halal meals in school canteens.
Teachers are to be encouraged to stand up to those who reject the right to publish religious caricature.
The police and intelligence services are closing mosques, prayer groups, sports clubs and other associations promoting Islamism.
One group to be closed down is the Collective against Islamophobia in France, which organizes protests and campaigns in support of Muslim activists.
Facebook, YouTube and other social media companies are in the government’s sights for the Islamist ideas that are posted on their platforms.
A new law is expected to force social media companies to delete Islamist posts within 24 hours or face heavy fines and even closure.
Foreign mullahs who advocate radical ideas are to be expelled.
Even leaders in the Socialist opposition have put aside qualms and deplored pro-Muslim radicals on their own side, who they say have started to espouse a creed of “Islamo-leftism”.
Gérard Larcher, the conservative leader of the Senate, urged Macron to do more. “The republic is facing a danger of a kind that it has rarely confronted,” he said.
The president, who is leading a memorial ceremony for Paty at the Sorbonne University on Wednesday, has told ministers to "sow fear in the camp of Islamists" after years of French suffering at the hands of extremists.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/france-confronts-its-failure-to-stop-extremism-3ff95lxwf
Trump has already transformed America’s courts
A generation of young, conservative federal judges could block laws from future DEMOCRAT Congresses.
Republicans have continued instead with the quiet task that has preoccupied them for much of Trump’s presidency: placing young and reliably conservative judges on the federal courts.
More than a dozen district judges have been installed into lifetime positions in September alone, part of Trump’s near-record first-term tally of 217 judicial appointments.
The president's chosen successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be his third appointment to the Supreme Court, tilting it firmly into the hands of conservatives.
Trump’s four years in office have allowed Republican lawmakers to dramatically reshape the US judicial system by installing right-wing judges at a pace unmatched in American history.
Trump’s judges, carefully selected for their ideological bona fides, have already begun to reshape US law in a more conservative direction on issues as wide ranging as gun control, voting rights, environmental protections, abortion and immigration.
A future Congress controlled by the DEMOCRATS can pass all the legislation they like, only for conservative judges to throw out those laws on the grounds of government over-reach.
Today, almost a third of all active federal judges on the US appeals courts were appointed by Trump.
At the district court level, the front line for civil and criminal cases, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has continued to confirm Trump’s appointees at a rapid clip.
“Leave no vacancy behind,” McConnell said.
https://www.ft.com/content/032b3101-9b8b-4566-ace4-67b86f42370b
A generation of young, conservative federal judges could block laws from future DEMOCRAT Congresses.
Republicans have continued instead with the quiet task that has preoccupied them for much of Trump’s presidency: placing young and reliably conservative judges on the federal courts.
More than a dozen district judges have been installed into lifetime positions in September alone, part of Trump’s near-record first-term tally of 217 judicial appointments.
The president's chosen successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be his third appointment to the Supreme Court, tilting it firmly into the hands of conservatives.
Trump’s four years in office have allowed Republican lawmakers to dramatically reshape the US judicial system by installing right-wing judges at a pace unmatched in American history.
Trump’s judges, carefully selected for their ideological bona fides, have already begun to reshape US law in a more conservative direction on issues as wide ranging as gun control, voting rights, environmental protections, abortion and immigration.
A future Congress controlled by the DEMOCRATS can pass all the legislation they like, only for conservative judges to throw out those laws on the grounds of government over-reach.
Today, almost a third of all active federal judges on the US appeals courts were appointed by Trump.
At the district court level, the front line for civil and criminal cases, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has continued to confirm Trump’s appointees at a rapid clip.
“Leave no vacancy behind,” McConnell said.
https://www.ft.com/content/032b3101-9b8b-4566-ace4-67b86f42370b
